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[–] [email protected] 112 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Silly meme. Nuclear bombs are much too heavy to wield on the battlefield, and their shape is unsuitable for piercing platemail armour

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If only I had some sort of mechanical machine that would lob this 300 kg nuclear bomb 90 m away at my enemy. One day science will catch up to man's dreams, one day...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Nuke hurling trebuchets are an underexplored fantasy tech.

[–] HenriVolney 4 points 7 months ago

To be safe, make it a 90kg nuclear bomb 300m away!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Nuclear artillery shells are an actual thing, though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

However, depleted uranium tipped arrows sound very cool.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

They just have to make small adjustments

Also gamma radiation is good at "piercing" platemail armour.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Until they make the Fat Man

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The real life version of that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

One of the hallmarks of a bad weapon: significant overlap in maximum range and minimum safe distance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Just mount it on the back of a spot robot similarly to https://youtu.be/0rliFQ0qyAM 😂

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol fucking america of course its already made

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

What about uranium armour tho?